A top executive with Japan Rail has killed himself after being arrested for groping a schoolgirl, which he denied even in his suicide note.

The 56-year-old branch manager of JR’s Hanwa Line was accused of touching the nether regions of a 17-year-old schoolgirl through her clothes whilst on a train, and was arrested and charged under Osaka prefectural anti-groping laws.

He protested his innocence despite the girl’s accusation, saying “I may have brushed her arm but I have no recollection of groping her.”

Police attempted to prolong his detention whilst they “investigated” further, but courts decided it was safe to release him despite his insolent protestations of innocence, and also denied a police appeal against this reckless decision.

Shortly after his release he went missing, only to be discovered dead in an Osaka public toilet, having apparently hanged himself. He left a note proclaiming “I am not a chikan.”

Online there are some doubts about the case:

“You can’t help but think that a world where the mere suspicion you are a dirty chikan is enough to force you to suicide is insane.”

“Don’t kill yourself if the accusation is false!”

“If it was just a false accusation, you wouldn’t normally kill yourself over it. He was probably guilty.”

“No, it was a false accusation so he killed himself as there was no way to clear his name?”

“He wouldn’t have killed himself if he were actually doing it and got caught.”

“”Even if you are a chikan, it is not worth killing yourself over.”

“Haven’t you people been falsely accused of something? If nobody will believe you are innocent you might well decide to kill yourself.”

“Why don’t the mass media go an quiz chikan victims on how they feel about this for once?”

“He could have recovered from the charges.”

“It was over for him, I doubt he would have been able to recover from this. He could have lived on peacefully in seclusion I suppose.”

“There is no way he could have recovered and started over – he was a career executive in a huge company, come on.”

“Why do you guys only ever assume chikan are innocent and condemn everyone else?”

“Why does this country assume all those accused of this are guilty and that they deserve to die? It’s madness.”

“JR will soon need to consider men-only carriages!”

“Cameras and separate carriages are needed.”

“What were the courts thinking to allow them to release this man!”

“What was this girl doing out of the women only carriage.”

“If it was a false charge he should have worked to fix the rail system so it stops producing all these cases.”

“Right. The real problem here is the rail system which keeps cramming together passengers and so producing both these chikan and all the false accusations. If you can arrest chikan, JR should also be held accountable for creating this environment.”

The bottom line here is that a man was driven to suicide over possibly groping a girl. Even if he was guilty, the system has failed. And if he wasn’t, the girl and her supporters have just indirectly killed a man. If he was innocent, I hope she stews in her guilt. And if he wasn’t, I hope she realizes that a grope isn’t worth driving a man to suicide over.

And to all you kids saying “suicide isn’t the answer”: shut the fuck up. You’ve never been there. And if you have, then kudos for being a successful train businessman before being accused of raping a girl, you self-righteous little twats.

if, would be me – false accused.
I would wait in prison and when I get out. I would kill girl, her family, cop, prosecutor, and judge. Then I will made a video of this, and uploaded it on you tube.
To reminder all of those scumbags, that I will not tolerate mistakes and false accusations.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if it turned out that the girl’s father also worked for JR in a position such that thanks to this guy killing himself, her father finds himself in a position to take the departed’s now-vacant post or at least get a promotion to the next higher position?

Quite disconcerting if you are in the railroad business and learn the hard way what can happen on what you have, in a way, been helping to bring about. And if you have to have second thoughts about your job, you won’t be able to run for long.

Doesn’t really matter if he did or didn’t do it. Once the media gets hold of it his reputation and standing in the community are destroyed. Even if proven innocent later no one will care.
It’s a shame men have to be driven to self destruction over something so trivial as grabbing someones ass.

The worst part of it is that pricks or “swag” gives some men the right to in a sense here in the USA. Some women even love it. To me, it’s not even right let alone “gentlemanly” to even look at a woman that insistingly. Men should always be a Gentlemen. Hold doors open and shit like that. True we can act like monsters or brutes, but only when a lady isn’t present ya know?

Speaking from a “nerd,” Women should be feared tbh…some of them are fucking monsters.

Why should we? I’m kind of baffled why men are still shoehorned into an very old and outdated role model.
We still have to take immense pains upon us to give people benefits who simply don’t deserve them.

Why should we have to prostrate ourselves to adhere to old ideals and rules when the other side doesn’t have to adher to their part anymore?

Do you really think any girl will thank you for acting like that? No! Most of the time they’ll either think that you are a creep or simply want to get into their panties.
Of course they take it anyway since it benefits them, but don’t expect them to respect you or act in a “lady like” manner.

There used to be two sides to this, one is gone, why trying to keep the other alive when it only detrimential to you?

I hate to admit it but I agree, men are not the only ones that should be pushed into being gentlemen. If women don’t want to act as proper as they should and be ladylike, why should a man have to act as a gentleman?
I prefer to act as ladylike as I can to everyone, not saying that I am a pompous prissy girl or anything but I always follow “Treat others how you wish to be treated”. It’s really not that hard of a saying to follow as people try and make it sound. @.@

If women want to act like idiotic bimbos then men should have the right to act like jackasses.

It’s still the same old routine for men that it was a hundred years ago. The “perfect gentleman” of yesteryear, the “sexy jerkass”, and the powerful and wealthy elite are still the three roles a man must play to be “sexually liberated.”

Not many men can pull that off. The rest of them are still stuck with having to be patient and lucky. Some of them can’t cope with it. And now their outlets (some criminal) are being taken away from them (often a good thing, too). Worse, even the archetypes are seeing those outlets taken away.

So while I wouldn’t say “take pity on men” or “women have it better”, I will say that you have to view this as a traditional social pressure on men that’s at least as powerful as the equivalent ones on women that make them wear makeup and short skirts. It’s part and parcel of living in a time when these roles are being redefined, and many people are being left behind as a result.

they dont get it do they?
if you get arrested for something like this. and then got released in a way its described in this article. people will still think your guilty even if your innocent. his good name was destroyed and would probably have destroyed his career as well.

I would have sued the police for wrongful arrest and prolonged detention then slapped the bitch with a defamation lawsuit.
In most first world countries they have to either have a case or they must let you go.
Suspicion and a verbal accusation is not enough.

When it comes to rape or sexual harassment accusations, such legal procedures are typically thrown out the window. Look at Strauss-Khan. A very rich man, yet accused of raping a maid, and despite the maid having no solid proof to her claim, the proceedings still went on.

No, it’s suicide. You try being in a high-pressure position where you can’t make the slightest error. Then get accused of something that immediately makes you seem guilty in everyone’s eyes, and lose your closest and most loyal peers out of fear that the businesses’ reputation will suffer. Then lose your family because your wife can no longer trust you. Then see your face in all the papers and on TV, with the words “chikan” written under them. Then be told you’re guilty over and over, until you want to die.

Not every successful businessperson is an evil tyrant, or an elite who can get away with murder. Some of them are nervous and hard-working people who have so much stress in their lives they want to commit suicide when something like this happens.

Once you get arrested for this crime of molesting girls on train, even you are not yet proven guilty, the stress in you builds up when other ppl around you suspects you. I guess he thinks the only way to clear his name is to die.

@14:24 There are things worse than death. I.e. being fired because of your reputation as a molester, then getting a divorce because you are a molester, then being unable to get another employment because you are a molester, then your neighbors are watching your every move and talking behind your back, because you are a molester. Then your property is vandalised because you are a molester. And nobody even wants to speak to you because you are a molester. Your bartender won’t serve you drinks. Because you are a molester.

Japan is a very judgmental society where everyone cares about their image and public perception. Frankly, they had a point, because image is very important in Japan. A poor image could adversely affect your life there more so than anywhere else. If you do not get in line, that society will give you a hard enough time to make you want to kill yourself.

>have vagina
>sell body for money
>receive expensive ‘gifts’
>receive public assistance
>’earn’ more tips than male coworkers
>never go without a roof over your head

>have penis
>have to beg for money, just eat from the dollar menu
>have to fight for custody, even if the woman is declared ‘unfit’
>get labeled a rapist, molester, deadbeat, pig, etc
>forced to sleep under a bridge, after everything goes south

Why does ‘sell body for money’ and ‘recieve expensive gifts’ rank high on on things that are meant to make life easy?

Men can whore too, and if they did, they’d know it wasn’t all sunshine and free cars. That shit is horrible, you get paid less the more you do it and nothing ever feels right again.
Fuck you, you know nothing.

>have a vagina
>get a degree in ‘liberal arts’
>work as a ‘secretary’, for nearly nothing
>boss compliments your work performance
>have sex, later call it ‘rape’
>fired for missing too many days
>strangers see your ‘baby bump’, give up their seat

Japanese women are treated like shit, especially in the workforce. This guy probably had some other shit going on that forced him to commit suicide, since sexual harassment is a-ok in the Japanese corporate world.

in view of the public officials being able to openly molest children it is ridiculous to see such charges being nearly imposable to defend your self from….and the police being such prominent
offenders in the molestation of kids …how can they even face the public and say any thing about other people….

Men-only carriages are the only way to go, so guys can at least relax and not fear to have a career ending accusation pop out of nowhere and destroy their lives.

And make no mistake, an accusation like that in Japan can pretty much destroy a japanese guy.

Btw, I was using for over 2 years a very crowded JR Line that brought me to the Shinjuku hub and it was so crowded that I accidentally came in contact with many people and I am quite sure the only thing that saved me from being accused of being a chikan was that I am not japanese.

@pirateking
not so sure about that, I’m asian and I just
came from tokyo and its overly-crowded ‘yamanote loop lines’, and there were three instances where the back of my hand came in contact with other women’s rears (due to people rushing out, I was pushed against other people), but I was never accused of anything.. it wasn’t a light ‘brush’ either, almost a ‘full on’ contact

A while back a woman sitting next to me on the train quickly got up and stepped on my foot as she left. It took me a few stunned seconds to realize that I might’ve touched her arm with my fingers as I was reaching for the phone in my inner jacket pocket.

Better fix do away with this guilty until innocent shit and holding people without trial.
Do away with the intense interrogations for what are minor crimes.
Next much tougher standard for joining the police force so you have police who know the difference between a serious claim and someone crying wolf.
The Japanese national police might need to fire half of their detectives as they won’t make the new requirements.

Better still, don’t treat a grope like a serious case of murder or a gangbang rape. It may be wrong, but you don’t go around hanging people for being crass jerks, so why ruin a man’s life over it? It’s not like woman don’t play a little anonymous grabass from time to time.

Actually, Seems you don’t know anything about Japanese society or in this matter, any society what so ever.. Something that damaging will have LARGE and wide ramifications on someone’s personal life! Read the news, something like this has ALREADY happened, and a man’s entire life was DESTROYED. Even though he was finally found innocent, it was too late because his life was DESTROYED!

who is with me, in praying for a final devastating earthquake and tsunami too end all tsunamis, to wipe the japanese nation from the face of the earth?

Seriously , they are THE most vile species to have ever infected the earth. Tho, some of the chicks are pretty hot and always MORE then willing to come running to us westerners for satisfaction, seeing as all there men are such vomit endusing herbivore losers.

Oh yeah? Shouldn’t it be the guilty ones who don’t hang themselves because they keep looking for new opportunities to molest women?

It doesn’t matter if the courts acquitted charges against him. The fucked up Japanese society at large has already laid the sentences down; they’d disown him, curse him when he’s not looking, and isolate him from everyone else. And he’s lost his job and his entire family would have to suffer constant strange looks and laughs from their collegues and classmates.

To summarize…

1. People will always remember what you are charged in court for, and not that innocent verdict they’d give you later.

2. You are an asshole. I hope you get incarcerated for an embarrassing crime you never committed.

[quote]People will always remember what you are charged in court for, and not that innocent verdict they’d give you later.[/quote]
The courts never declare anyone innocent. A trail either ends with a “guilty” or “not guilty” sentence. If irrefutable evidence in your favor is discovered, the charges are simply dropped without a verdict.